V. READING COMPREHENSION
A. Choose the one option - b, c or d - that best fits each of the numbered blank.
I (1) ................ my teaching career nearly ten years ago. I spent six years (2) …........... in a remote village (3) .................. the villagers were very poor and the living standard was low. Sometimes I was very disappointed (4) .................. bad living condition and low pay. I was really homesick. However, at that time, with my youth (5) .................., I tried my best to devote (6 ..................... to the noblest career, that was "teaching". I loved my poor little students. They were living in (7) …………… but they could not (8) ................... from empty mind.
I am proud (9) ................... myself to be a teacher, a hard working "boatman" taking my students to the "destination" of (10) ..................... .
1. a. begin b. began c. have begun d. had begun
2. a. teach b. to teach c. teaching d. taught
3. a. which b. there c. when d. where
4. a. in spite of b. because of c. because d. though
5. a. enthusiasm b. movement c. emotion d. culture
6. a. me time b. my career c. my duty d. myself
7. a. poor b. poverty c. debt d. shortage
8. a. bear b. cope with c. suffer d. manage
9. a. in b. on c. about d. of
10. a. knowledge b. competence c. background d. experience
1 B
2 C
3 D
4 B
5 A
6 D
7 B
8 C
9 D
10 A